chic @ the City fashion show, May 7, 2015

A dynamic group of business and professional women have joined forces to create a new organization called the “Chairity Chix,” whose mission is to support worthy charitable causes in our community and around the world. The inaugural event of the Charity Chix is called Chic @ the City which features a fashion show, gourmet appetizers, complimentary valet and fabulous raffle and silent auction prizes.

 

WHAT:            Funds raised from this event will support Rotary’s upcoming mission to Ghana, Africa and will also benefit the John McGivney Centre. Internationally, funds will be allocated to school supplies, backpacks and malaria prevention mosquito nets for impoverished children, pregnant and nursing mothers in Ghana. Locally funds will be invested into programs at the John McGivney Children’s centre.

 

WHEN:            Chic @ the City takes place on Thursday, May 7^th(6 PM)

WHERE:           The City Grill, 375 Ouellette Ave.

Tickets $100 and available by calling 519-253-0111.

by Alan Halberstadt www.alanhalberstadt.com

Plant A Tree For Earth Day In Windsor April 26, 2015

 Calling the community to help plant tees and celebrate Earth Day!  On Sunday, April 26^th from 10am – 12noon, ERCA will host its annual Earth Day® Tree Planting Celebration at Florence & McHugh, just east of the WFCU Centre.  More than 2,000 trees will be planted.

“We’ve been hosting this event since 1998,” explains Danielle Breault Stuebing, ERCA’s Director of Community Outreach Services.  “It’s a true family event, and it’s been wonderful to see so many families return year after year.  As their children are growing, so are the trees that are being planted.”

Planting trees helps improve water quality, removes carbon from the air and provides shelter for birds and other wildlife.  “Over the past sixteen years, this event alone has added more than twenty thousand trees to the City of Windsor,” Breault Stuebing goes on to say.  “As this is part of the Detroit River watershed, the trees planted help to improve water quality for the entire Detroit River and ultimately, our Great Lakes.”

There are nature crafts for kids and ERCA’s Youth Engagement Team will host an e-waste collection to benefit Computers for Kids.  Organizations that have registered as ‘Green Teams’ will be recognized at the event, and the winners of this year’s Earth Day Contest will be honoured.  With more than 2000 trees of varying sizes to be planted and mulched, while ERCA does have a supply of gloves and shovels, guests are encouraged to bring their own as well.

“Earth Day is about taking action – all of us working together to protect our watersheds and restore natural areas to help improve our quality of life and the attractiveness of this region,” Breault Stuebing adds.

 

Since 1973, the Essex Region Conservation Authority has served as a community-based organization dedicated to protecting, restoring and managing the natural resources of the Essex Region. 


Learn more at ERCA.org.

                       

by Alan Halberstadt www.alanhalberstadt.com